{"id":2913,"date":"2024-09-03T08:08:32","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T08:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/?p=2913"},"modified":"2024-09-03T08:14:01","modified_gmt":"2024-09-03T08:14:01","slug":"sajith-premadasa-promises-international-cricket-ground-for-jaffna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/2024\/09\/03\/sajith-premadasa-promises-international-cricket-ground-for-jaffna\/","title":{"rendered":"Sajith Premadasa Promises International Cricket Ground for Jaffna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Leader and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sjb.lk\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB)<\/a> Presidential candidate, MP Sajith Premadasa, announced plans to establish an international Test Cricket Ground in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jaffna\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jaffna<\/a> if an SJB government comes to power.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at a media briefing organized by the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/JaffnaPressClubOfficial\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Jaffna Press Club<\/a>, MP Premadasa revealed that, in addition to the cricket ground, a sports development program would be introduced for the youth of Jaffna.<\/p>\n<p>He mentioned that during his previous visit to Jaffna, a question he raised about the lack of a Test Cricket Ground had sparked a discussion that ultimately led to this proposal.<\/p>\n<p>Premadasa shared that he had already inspected a large plot of land in Jaffna, currently under the control of Sri Lanka Cricket, which had been allocated for the development of a cricket ground but remained undeveloped.<\/p>\n<p>He promised that this land would be transformed into an international Test Cricket Ground, and sports training facilities would also be introduced to benefit the region.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_4mMHjD1whw?si=14XmvMxo5F0V8Pb5\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Opposition Leader and Samagi Jana Balawegaya (SJB) Presidential candidate, MP Sajith Premadasa, announced plans to establish an international Test Cricket Ground in Jaffna if an SJB government comes to power.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"yes","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_205606689_205606689":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,16,13,531,5],"tags":[42,1520,1521,1519,1522,1050,222,223,200,44],"class_list":["post-2913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local","category-local-home","category-main-story","category-politics","category-sport","tag-cricket","tag-cricket-ground","tag-international-test-cricket-ground","tag-jaffna","tag-jaffna-press-club","tag-sajith-premadasa","tag-samagi-jana-balawegaya","tag-sjb","tag-sports","tag-sri-lanka-cricket"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2913"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2917,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2913\/revisions\/2917"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ceylondailynews.lk\/home\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}